When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
KHALIL GIBRANGenerosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.
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Love is timeless. Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.
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Love one another, but make not a bond of love.
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I do not want you to hear that I love you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say.
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Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.
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Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another.
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Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.
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Rest in reason. Move in Passion.
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How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
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If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.
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Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.
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Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
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Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
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All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
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